I am a bit confused between these two words: immigrate and emigrate.
Which sentence is correct?
Our family immigrated to the US in 1990.
Our family emmigrated to the US in 1990.
Thank you.
Difference between immigrate and emigrate?
2012-03-13 6:42 am
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2012-03-13 6:45 am
✔ 最佳答案
Your first sentence.Immigrate means when someone immigrated from a different country.
Emigrate means the person which immigrated.
2012-03-13 6:54 am
Immigrants are people from foreign countries who now live in your country, immigration is coming into a country from another.
To emigrate means to leave your home country to go live in foreign land.
To emigrate means to leave your home country to go live in foreign land.
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2012-03-13 6:48 am
People immigrate TO another country and emigrate FROM their home country. The correct sentence is: "Our family immigrated to the U.S. in 1990." They emigrated from whichever country they'd been living in previously.
"Emigrate" is spelled with only one "m."
"Emigrate" is spelled with only one "m."
2012-03-13 8:22 am
emigrate comes from ex-migrate (out of a country one has been living in till now)
Immigrate comes from in-migrate (into a new country)
Immigrate comes from in-migrate (into a new country)
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